{"id":4213,"date":"2009-05-12T14:41:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T21:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/crusader-girls-take-to-french-field\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T00:10:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T07:10:25","slug":"crusader-girls-take-to-french-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/crusader-girls-take-to-french-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Crusader girls take to French Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentcrusaders.com\">Kent Crusaders girls&#8217; rugby team<\/a> gave sports fans an exciting view into their sport May 9 at Kent&#8217;s French Field.<\/p>\n<p>Playing between halves of the Seattle Majestics women&#8217;s tackle football game, the girls demonstrated the prowess that&#8217;s led to their status for the last 10 years as Washington&#8217;s state rugby champions.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to taking the state title every year since 2000, the girl Crusaders have competed in the national tournament every year since 2000, winning the national title in 2002. They&#8217;ve also have toured Canada, New Zealand, England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p>The Crusaders girl&#8217;s team was the first high school girls&#8217; rugby team in the nation, established in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>The Crusaders also have a boys&#8217; team that has been playing since 1991, and which has taken seven Pacific Northwest championships, in addition to playing in the national championship nearly every year since 1993.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the Crusaders&#8217; is teaching athletes the game of rugby while instilling a spirit of teamwork, good sportsmanship, scholastic achievement and community involvement.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the Crusaders program, go to  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentcrusaders.com\">www.kentcrusaders.com.<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent Crusaders girls&#8217; rugby team gave sports fans an exciting view into their sport May 9 at Kent&#8217;s French Field. Playing between halves of the Seattle Majestics women&#8217;s tackle football game, the girls demonstrated the prowess that&#8217;s led to their status for the last 10 years as Washington&#8217;s state rugby champions. In addition to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":4214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4213"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}